Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 2 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 3 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 4 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 5 | The wedding we went to , was it two years ago now ? |
| 6 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 7 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 8 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |
| 9 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 10 | At home we listened to the official news , which we knew was full of propaganda . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , she 's the girl we waved to just now ! ’ cried one of the Brownies , gazing hard at Brenda |
| 12 | When I was a girl we moved to Swindon . |
| 13 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 14 | Accordingly we can ask its supporters the same question we addressed to our friends from Copenhagen . |
| 15 | And who was the youngest FA Cup final referee , a question we repeated to Referees Association president Peter Willis who handled the 1985 final . |
| 16 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 17 | With John Cocks cursing the fact that he had not brought his tripod and frustrated by the lack of lighting equipment we had to content ourselves with lunch sans photography . |
| 18 | We chose a village to stay in almost at random — it was the place we got to as the evening was drawing in . |
| 19 | Police said : ‘ It 's a good job we got to him before he lost his hair , put on a frilly collar and developed total mastery of Elizabethan England . |
| 20 | Pulling on long , rounded flutes of gritty granite we came to ‘ the direct way . ’ |
| 21 | Cos when I , I used to take Tim , it used to be very safe then , the only danger we seemed to be in in those days was catching cold . |
| 22 | Er I ca n't remember I was n't with them but we , we were in a spot and erm some of the tanks were away down there and some were up here and we , the next move we went to . |
| 23 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
| 24 | One evening we went to a play — a stage production of an Agatha Christie thriller performed by a local concert group . |
| 25 | On Sunday 6th we have a free day — a much needed respite to enable us to prepare some of our work for the next week — but in the evening we went to dinner with from the embassy , as well as with two senior visitors from London , one from the British Council ( , who is responsible for all Chinese visits ) and one from the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | that 's the only shop we went to . |
| 27 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 28 | that they had a ki ki she had a fes you know the festival we went to ? |
| 29 | In the war we went to . |
| 30 | In the next war we changed to munitions and they tried to bomb us . |